The Shins rocker Martin Crandall has been charged with domestic assault following an alleged physical altercation with his model girlfriend Elyse Sewell on Friday (04Jan08).

Shins' Martin Crandall Roughs Up Elyse Sewell?

Fans of Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model Season 1 will know Elyse Sewell. (See YouTube videos) For those who do not, Elyse was the gal from the first season of ANTM.

She and Marty would go on to have a relationship for nearly seven years.

The New Slang star is currently being held on $25,000 (¬£12,500) bail by Sacramento County, California police.

Crandall andSewell, were both arrested following an incident at a Sacramento hotel. Sewell was released on Saturday (05Jan08). The pair are due in court in the next week.

Sewell has posted photographs of her injured arm on her online blog, where she refers to Crandall as her "ex-boyfriend" and claims police have also charged her with a domestic violence offence.

She writes: "On the drive home from Albuquerque to Portland, my ex-boyfriend got s**tfaced (drunk) and roughed me up in a Sacramento hotel. I escaped from the room through a blitzkrieg of violence and talked to hotel security, who called the fuzz (police).

"Because he had a bite mark, inflicted in self-defence, on his arm, Marty told the police to press charges of domestic violence against me. Now I am a felon. I spent the night in jail."

Crandall remains in jail and has a scheduled court date for Tuesday January 8th at 1:30 PM. You can follow his status of freedom on SacSheriff.com. (c) WENN (c) tPC